2024
Delving into the complexities of visual language across diverse artistic mediums.
Highlighting challenges in maintaining consistency and exploring the interconnectedness amidst diversity within artistic expression.
MFA Thesis Exhibition
Installation
Presented an interdisciplinary body of work combining oil painting, printmaking, ceramic installation, and poetry for the 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Wattis Institute. The project investigated the intersection of visual language systems through metaphors of drifting and anchoring, layering, and projection. Material memory, symbolic logic, and structural repetition were explored across media, with arrows, symbolic numbers, fractions, and coordinate systems recurring as formal and conceptual anchors. The work translated painterly marks into sculptural forms and poetic structures, blurring the boundary between image, text, and object, and proposed an abstract syntax for navigating meaning across divergent mediums.
TENDER
Oil on Canvas
84 x 147 inches
Where will we go?
Are you going to eat something?
In the darkness.
Carrying
Walking
Chatting
Questioning
Answering
Under the black
Face the light
Everything hides
We see
We know
We hide
But I see your eyes
You see my eyes
Beautiful eyes
Lovely eyes
What is real is beautiful
Only what is real is lovely
Hidden but not hidden
Hide but cannot hide
Controllable but not controllable
Control but cannot control
Tender but not tender
Tender but cannot tender
Tender tender still tender
Tender tender still tender
Bring a blush
Into the sun
Red turns black
Sun turns star
The sun
The star
The moon
The tower
Flashing
Dropping
Running
Twinkling
Light
Coin
Step
Tone
Tenderly tender tender
Tender tenderly
Tender still
Still tender
READINGS
Ceramic, Ink, Canvas, Lithograph, Mixed Media
The major arcana cards that appeared in my tarot readings during the making of TENDER.
CRIMSON
Oil and Ink on Canvas
84 x 153 inches
scarlet^crimson=willow
2019-2024, DIARY ABOUT PAINTING
Mixed Media on Canvas
36 x 24 inches
● 2024-07-21, 0, 0, 80.
i'm really, really, really happy that I can still paint.
● 2023-09-09, 0, 0, 1.3k.
painting, want to cry.
● 2022-09-09, 0, 0, 284.
● 2022-08-19, 0, 0, 299.
● 2022-08-16, 0, 0, 344.
● 2022-07-12, 0, 0, 56.
dreamed my painting was sold at a high price.
● 2022-03-22, 0, 3, 79.
● 2021-11-12, 0, 0, 71.
● 2021-10-24, 0, 0, 139.
● 2021-08-14, 0, 0, 63.
● 2021-08-05, 0, 0, 64.
● 2021-05-24, 0, 0, 310.
● 2021-05-07, 0, 0, 349.
● 2021-05-06, 0, 0, 341.
● 2021-05-06, 0, 0, 341.
studying for love, painting for joy.
● 2021-05-01, 0, 0.
i always aspire to art.
● 2021-04-26, 0, 0, 299.
don't be afraid, don't stop practicing, don't stop moving forward.
● 2021-03-28, 0, 0, 364.
● 2021-03-26, 0, 0, 349.
● 2021-03-09, 0, 1, 335.
● 2021-03-05, 0, 0, 181.
i don't even know what i'm rambling and babbling about. expressing is so hard. studying is also hard.
● 2020-12-21, 1, 0, 350.
only painting can relieve my worries.
● 2020-11-29, 0, 0, 56.
painting is really good. food is really good. so, don't die.
● 2020-11-28, 0, 0, 53.
● 2020-11-25, 0, 1, 50.
i really want to learn painting. why give me opportunity. i can't catch it. i'm so envious...
● 2020-10-16, 0, 0, 250.
can't sleep. want to paint.
● 2020-09-26, 0, 0, 219.
● 2020-08-20, 0, 0.
● 2020-08-17, 0, 0.
how could i be so lucky.
● 2020-07-05, 0, 0, 44.
painting is joyful, practice painting is painful.
● 2020-07-02, 0, 1, 47.
● 2020-07-01, 0, 0, 245.
don't be afraid.
● 2020-07-01, 0, 0, 44.
● 2020-04-21, 0, 0, 138.
i'm so lucky to be alive now.
● 2020-03-03, 0, 0, 192.
● 2020-02-26, 0, 0, 58.
i hope to create work that touches hearts and brings beauty to the world.
● 2020-01-19, 0, 0, 239.
no regrets.
● 2020-01-16, 0, 0.
i will.
● 2019-12-26, 0, 1.
INSCRIPTION
Clay, Lithograph, Ink, Gold Leaf
Special project I made for THE BAY AREA MFA SHOW 3.
